Top 118 Quotes by Nadia Comaneci

Gymnastics should be popular everywhere; you just need the right person to start the right programme.

It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.

See, when I went to the Olympics in '76, the gymnastics people knew that I was good, but everybody else, after I won, everybody was like, 'Where's she coming from? Who is she? What is Romania?'

Now, I have a kid, I have businesses to take care of, I have to travel. I have to sit down... and find a little time for me.

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.

Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.

If I was 14 or 15 again, I would do the same thing. I've done everything. I think I've accomplished more than I had in mind.

To me, family is what is important. If you don't have it, nothing is going to matter.